The scariest thing about Thumped -- a story told about a futuristic dystopia where teen girls have their bodies sold for reproductive purposes -- is how eerily similar it is to our own world right now.

Before saying a whole lot more, I'll say it's absolutely essential to read Bumped before diving into this one or it will make no sense at all. A year out from reading Bumped, I was a little lost for a while (partially my fault and partially because the first 1/3 or so of Thumped is the weakest).

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OMG I won this as a goodreads giveaway! This is my first one, I can't believe it! SO EFFING EXCITED

I'm confused. How can Melody be pregnant if she never had sex with anybody..? Am I missing something?

This was one of the rare books I enjoyed more than its predecessor (is that the right word?). I often hate movie sequels...

Well, anyway, this book rocked! :)

It sort of reminded me of Expecting, because both books are about teen pregnancy and reproductive rights.

SUMMARY: It's been about 8 1/2 months since Bumped took place, and twin sisters Harmony and Melody are both going to have twins on the same day! In a world where only teens get pregnant, these girls must give their babies to families who More...

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This was a fantastic conclusion to a crazy, refreshing, inventive dystopian series.


I absolutely loved Bumped with its wacky vocabulary and its odd concepts of pregnancy in a world where past the age of 18, girls become infertile. I could only vaguely remember parts of Bumped so I would suggest re-reading it before digging into Thumped. However it does all come back to you and the progression of the characters and their lives are clearly explained.


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First Impression: First of all, the covers to these books cracked me up (no pun intended -- okay, maybe a little.) The books themselves are really pretty, the covers have a great texture and I love the bright hot pink. Sigh.

I read Bumped (the first book in this series) about a year ago when it first was released, and I was disappointed in it. I thought the chapters were to short and it sort of all fell flat for me. But I picked up Thumped anyway, because I thought the story had potential and I l More...

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Quick & Dirty: Thumped focuses more on Harmony as the girls fight their own popularity to save the future they really want.

Opening Sentence: I face my reflection, an engorged distortion I barely recognize anymore.

The Review:

You absolutely have to read Bumped before picking up its sequel. Nothing will make sense and unlike other authors, McCafferty doesn’t waste pages going over the previous novel. If you read it, you’ll remember it. If you skipped it, you More...

This book picks up where bumped left off and finishes the story.

Theology: Exploring God and faith

Each section of the book starts with a biblical reference: Mark 8:36, Luke 16:10, Matthew 6:21, Hebrew 11:1. Like Bumped, the book looks a what it means to “have God.” One of the two main characters is now disillusioned with her cult-like upbringing and struggles as she tries to fit into a community that she once believed in. Another character is forced to look at what he thought was his God-given ro More...

I'm going to be honest, I don't remember a lot about Bumped. I remember I read it, thought it was an interesting concept, and liked it enough to be mildly excited when I saw there was a sequel.

I have a great love of dystopian fiction but this particular novel failed to live up to my expectations. I kept reading, waiting for it to get exciting, for something to happen, and it never did. Zen and Melody are supposed to be planning this "Mission", this rebellion against society and they hardly eve More...

Probably 3.5 stars. Thirty-five weeks since Bumped ended, twins Harmony and Melody are both pregnant with twins and set to deliver on the same due date. They're separated, with Harmony back in the religious community of Goodside and Melody in the spotlight out in the rest of the world; their duel pregnancies have made them celebrities to the rest of the world. They're both struggling with secrets, and Melody is excited to make their pregnancies mean something in a world where only teens can proc More...

To some extent, these books are silly and overly simplistic, but they still manage to be engaging and satirically thought provoking. I wouldn't go so far as to label them dystopian, but in the way that Hunger Games felt like an all-too-foreseeable extension of the current state of reality TV, Thumped and Bumped feel like a believable extension of current day infertility issues when joined with the rapid progression of social networking. By presenting a society that is essentially a mirror image More...

The idea for this book just amazes me. The Giver, anyone?

I love authors who can think outside the box like this! Our society nowadays is so filled with people saying teenagers should not be having sex and getting pregnant that it seems disconcerting when the situation is completely flipped.

Actually no, that's not completely true. What actually struck me as strangest of all was how quick and easy it was for me as a reader to adapt for this new scenario, because really, as different as the situati More...

Why I picked it up: I read the first in the series and am curious enough to want to know what happens.

Melody and Harmony are twins that have been raised separately and have only recently been reunited. They are currently extremely famous for both being pregnant with twins and the same due date. This picks up about 7 ½ months after Bumped (abruptly) ends.

I thought it was okay. I didn't go back and reread Bumped, so there were a few things I had to readjust to. Some things seemed really obvious. O More...

Back with reading! (I was a bit late with my own aim to finish this year challenge before June started but I guess laziness got the best out of me.So yeah, sucks that happened..)

Anyway, this book is more of a 3.5 rather than just three..0.5 for the clean ending of this book. I`m not sure whether there will be another one, but I think if the series end with this book, it would already be perfect plot wise.

About this book, the story started off with Melody(the otherside) telling the world lies tha More...

I was pleasantly surprised by Thumped – especially since I could finally distinguish the difference between Melody’s and Harmony’s chapters! (Trust me. It was difficult to do so in Bumped.)

But the sequel really works to flesh out the sisters by using their relationships with their friends and family, in turn giving another dimension to said extended characters. There’s also a better sense of world building; an inside look at Goodside and mentions of other countries and locations help to place th More...

Thumped picked up around eight and a half months after Bumped left off and is a very quick read; I got through it in an evening.

The overtly religious aspects of Harmony got under my skin less in Thumped than in book 1, largely because she spent a lot of this book questioning things. However, I did feel that the book was too short. When I was half or two thirds of the way through, I was wondering how it could possible wrap up all the issues it raised in the pages remaining (in my Random House UK More...

Thumped by Megan McCafferty is the sequel to Bumped a dystopian satire about a society where teenagers are encouraged to get pregnant. The story alternates between the voices of twins Harmony and Melody who have told the world that they are both pregnant with twins and born on the same day. Harmony has gone back to Goodside with her husband although she is pregnant with Jondoe's babies. She is unhappy in this religious community and unwilling to conform. Melody is part of a huge fraud, faking th More...

Rating: 3.5/5

Thumped returns us to a world that dropped our jaws when we initially encountered it in Bumped, and though we’re more prepared for it with this sequel, we find we’re no more comfortable with this future the second time around. Perhaps part of the reason Ms. McCafferty’s distorted reality is so unnerving is not because we can’t possibly imagine a time in which we’d view the sexual exploitation of our young men and women as necessary no matter how desperate our future selves might be, More...

Wow I received this ARC in the mail and I did not know what to think at first but as I started reading Thumped I was more then surprised. Thumped is a nice sequel to its predecessor bumped.




Bumped took us to places that I have never read before in a book, like all of the controversies of teenage pregnancy and motherhood. And Thumped even dug deeper into the issues, especially the issue of being ready to take on sex and motherhood. But on the upper hand I did find myself laughing out loud at some More...

The second book in the Bumped series (which could end with Thumped or continue)-- it's neatly packaged to have a fitting end that doesn't leave every stone unturned but enough of them to be satisfying. Melody and Harmony are twins who didn't know each other existed until about a year ago but in this futuristic and somewhat dystopian world, a virus spread making it impossible for most to have babies, so sex is a "pro sport" of sorts with super-hot guys and girls running around in their teens bein More...

Melody, Harmony, Zen, and Jondoe are currently pulling off the biggest scam in history and making tons of money while doing it. Harmony has returned to Goodside with Ram to raise her twin daughters in the way of the church, but she is finding her existence there to be more and more challenging with every day and every new question about the Elder's ideas of faith. Melody is sporting a fake bump to pass off her and Jondoe's "relationship" to the press while she struggles to deal with her evolving More...

Thumped is the sequel to Bumped, a dystopian set in a world where a virus means that women and men, as adults, cannot conceive. Older women turn to teens to fall pregnant for them.

I really liked Bumped. It was a fun dystopian with pre-teens wearing fun bumpz, pregnant bellies they could strap on until the day when they were able to fall pregnant. I like Melody and Harmony, the twin girls who are the center of the story. Harmony lives in a Christian village and will only procreate when she's mar More...

I was very unsure about my thoughts on BUMPED, the first book in the series, but I think I decided, overall, that I did enjoy the story.

So, what happened here with THUMPED? I just can't put my finger on it. The characters were selfish and irritating. The story was getting tiring and the weird bump-esque language just became annoying after a while.

Just stop at BUMPED and pretend like it's a cliff-hanger ending on purpose -- that'd be my recommendation, at least.

Oh, Megan McCafferty. How dare you end this two-book series now? I demand that you write a third. Chumped? Dumped? Humped?

Thumped picks up eight and a half months after Bumped ended. Harmony has returned to Goodside, the religious compound that she called home prior to decamping to Otherside to find her identical twin sister, Melody. Harmony didn't leave alone, however; she is pregnant with twin girls. Meanwhile, back in Otherside, Melody, thanks to ALTERR (Artificial Living Tissue Engineered fo More...

I'm going to start off by saying I liked Thumped a lot better than Bumped.

Melody and Harmony are twins separated at birth and adopted into two parallel lifestyles. Harmony is a God-worshiping girl from Goodside who's mother raised 48 kids. Melody is a professional pregger, a RePro Surrogette, who's parents mapped out her entire life around the idea that she would basically make bank by getting pregnant. In this dystopian world set in future New Jersey, a virus makes people over the average age More...

I LOVE all things Megan McCafferty. I loved the first book in this series, Bumped, and her Jessica Darling series is one of my most favorite things ever.

The world in these books is creepily plausible and the slang is really clever. (The whole idea is that only teens can get pregnant and so advertising has made it really cool to get pregnant as often as you can. The religious teens keep and raise their babies; the others get pregnant for cash.)

Thumped deals with the repercussions of the events More...

The idea behind these books is so intriguing and I enjoyed the second book as much as I enjoyed the first. Thumped was a great sequel and conclusion to Bumped and I read it all in one night. The story moves pretty fast and there were no parts where it lagged or I felt I had to push through to get to the good stuff. I particularly enjoyed any references to the past (or, I guess to our present day) where they couldn't imagine a world in which teen pregnancy is a legitimate issue instead of a means More...

Geez. Somehow, I thought maybe this one would be a bit better than the first one. The ending was pretty good, but it was a long time coming. It takes forever for anyone to figure anything out. I guess if you are raised a certain way, it is hard... but I don't know.

I still liked Harmony more than Melody. (Shaving at dying her hair gave her bonus points too) Melody was supposed to be super-smart, but she was just sort of like a blond bimbo to me. Sort of like Shannon on the show "LOST". You know, More...

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Oh, Thumped. What can I say about Thumped?
I read the first book, Bumped, and honestly, I did not enjoy it. So don't ask me what compelled me to pick up Thumped and read it, but I did.
And I didn't enjoy this one either. Surprise, surprise.
So I'm just going to keep this review short.

This book was very frustrating for me. In more than one aspect.
First, the relationships between characters. Zen, who supposedly loves Melody, doesn't act at all More...